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For last class of the term for copy editing course, doing an AMA.

Looking forward to having ChatGPT summarize this for me.

This is my childhood.

The great-great-great grandson of Franz Josef observing the passing of Walker, Texas Ranger, was not on my bingo card today, but I'll take it.

Update: they made the 1:30 p.m. class on time.

Student emailed me that they will be late for 8:30 a.m. class. That's not good, but at least they signalled ahead. Also the class is at 1:30 p.m.

Israeli Jewish activists and Christian monks together are offering dates and water to Muslims in Jerusalem as they break their fast at sunset.

@TheDanLevy @TristinHopper It just random chance that I actually know something about something for once.

@blinkwriter @TristinHopper Never heard of this guy or this attempted bombing I don’t think. Where did you read about him & this attempted attack? (I know l can google but you seem to clearly have a source handy)

Jokes on you, Americans. We Canadians have to worry about extremist Islam AND extremist Sikhism.

@TheDanLevy @TristinHopper Just finished Jerusalem by Simon Sebag Montefiore where the murder and the subsequent court martial and scandal is recounted. His apparent confession was contested and declared inadmissible. Extra detail about Farran from Wikipedia, including the assassination attempt on him.

@TristinHopper @TheDanLevy And among other things, became an Alberta cabinet minister. A Canadian Heritage Moment.

@TristinHopper @TheDanLevy Closest would be the attempted revenge murder of Roy Farran, former SAS guy in Mandatory Palestine who killed a random Jewish teenager. An Irgun parcel bomb meant for him when he returned to the UK was opened by his brother instead. Farran moved to Canada.

All the birds around here -- ravens, owls, eagles, wild turkeys -- mating and nesting. Very loud forest orgy.

This is a profound continental divide. Canadians overwhelmingly view other Canadians, even those unlike them, as being good people. Americans, more than any other country, view their neighbours and fellow citizens as bad people. Anti-Americanism flourishes in the United States

This is an ILLEGAL war on Mordor. We’re told Sauron “poses an existential threat,” yet somehow this involves sending hobbits 1,500 miles to a volcano. Regime change in Mordor will only create a power vacuum filled by worse orcs. Sauron is bad, sure. But is he “march to Mount Doom” bad? Meanwhile second breakfast is underfunded. Tell me again how this puts the Shire first?

Whenever your teacher rolled this sweet bastard into the classroom, you knew the "No learning this afternoon!" celebration was officially ON.

@jonkay @avilewis That pic is a depressingly accurate demographic snapshot of the Vancouver Island/Gulf Islands locations he visited.

The other factor at play is that Canada has obviously become an extremely multicultural country…. but the photos that @avilewis posts of his depressing-looking meet ups resemble some kind of giant whites-only Tupperware party from 1950

Carney will win a massive majority in the next elxn. Not bcuz the conservatives collapse. But bcuz the Gaza-obsessed NDP won’t win a single seat. here is a supposed NDP leadership frontrunner having a “solidarity session” with a doc suspended from his residency for antisemitism

@TLNewmanMTL To be clear, I don't like the term, and maybe we can send it back across the bridge Trump is holding up.

@TLNewmanMTL I couldn't find it used in any of the press releases from the RCMP yesterday. True, the superintendent did use the term back to the U.S. reporter, and he didn't need to do so, but I suspect he was just being polite. Here's the video from yesterday. ctvnews.ca/video/2026/02/…

I can only hope that Canada becoming the laughing stock for the phrase "gun person" will set us back on a course for reality.

What a sad day, Canucks legend Jim Robson has passed away. We only had a Canucks game of the week on TV in the 80’s, it was Jim and my radio. Nobody described a game better. Simply the best there ever was.